MYERS v. MOONEY AIRCRAFT, INC.


429 Pa. 177 (1967)

Myers v. Mooney Aircraft, Inc., Appellant. Urella v. Mooney Aircraft Corporation, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 14, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard M. Borish, with him Bernard Chanin, Clarence C. Newcomer, and Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, and James W. Wilson, and McGinnis, Lochridge, Kilgore, Hunter & Wilson, of the Texas Bar, for appellant.

Charles Foltz Herr, with him Appel, Ranck, Herr & Appel, for appellees.

Charles A. Lord, with him Jack J. Bernstein, Frank Edward Roda, and Richter, Lord & Cavanaugh, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, November 14, 1967:

On August 9, 1962, at Forest Hills, Maryland, an airplane, allegedly piloted by Helen Myers, crashed and both Helen Myers and her passenger, Maurice Wilhere, were killed. This airplane had been manufactured by Mooney Aircraft, Inc. (Mooney), a Texas corporation.

As a result of this accident, two trespass actions were instituted in the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster...

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